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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday added a warning to the fact sheet for Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine saying that data suggests there is an increased risk of a rare neurological disorder in the six weeks after inoculation.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s full rollout of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine will have to be put on hold until the Russian producer provides equal quantities of its two differing doses, Dr.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M.,  (Reuters) – British billionaire Richard Branson yesterday soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle’s first fully crewed test flight to space, a symbolic milestone for a venture he started 17 years ago.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian police said yesterday they had arrested one of the suspected masterminds in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a Haitian man whom authorities accused of hiring mercenaries to oust and replace Moise.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M.,  (Reuters) – British billionaire Richard Branson today soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle’s first fully crewed test flight to space, a symbolic milestone for a venture he started 17 years ago.

VENICE,  (Reuters) – BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink today called for governments to develop a stronger long-term climate finance plan to unlock the private capital needed to fund the transition to a low-carbon economy.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders said yesterday his men would take to the streets in protest at the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, threatening to pitch the impoverished Caribbean nation deeper into chaos.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Clashes between police and a gang in northwestern Caracas this week have left at least 26 dead, including four officers, and 38 people injured, Venezuelan Interior Minister Carmen Melendez said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that 800,000 two-dose vaccines will arrive in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday morning.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The widow of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise today accused shadowy enemies of organizing his assassination to stop democratic change, as a struggle for power intensified in the Caribbean nation.

WASHINGTON/PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday rebuffed Haiti’s request for troops to help secure key infrastructure after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise by suspected foreign mercenaries, even as it pledged to help with the investigation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden increased pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday to move against ransomware groups operating in Russia, warning the United States is prepared to respond if cyberhacks are not stopped.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – At least 52 people were killed, 20 injured and many more feared trapped after a massive fire raged through a juice-making factory in Bangladesh, officials said today, the latest industrial fire accident in the country.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British police officer today admitted murdering Sarah Everard, whose killing sparked anger, protests and soul-searching across the country about what the authorities and society could do to stop male violence against women.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise this week comprised 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, authorities said yesterday, as the hunt went on for the masterminds of the brazen killing.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday strongly defended his decision to pull U.S.

(Reuters) – Zaila Avant-garde, 14, became the first African American to win the 90-year-old Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling ‘Murraya,’ a genus of plants, staying cool after a near miss with a botanical word in a previous round.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – The economic cost of a regional power outage in Central America on Wednesday was estimated at around $18.2 million, the head of the region’s electricity operator EOR said yesterday, identifying two failures behind it.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s police today seized at least two more suspected members of the gang of assassins that killed President Jovenel Moise, following a fierce battle that left bullets strewn in the streets of the capital.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Organisers are set to ban all spectators from the Tokyo 2020 Games, the Asahi newspaper said today, as Japan declared a coronavirus state of emergency for the capital that will run throughout the event.